UNLV’s proposed new football stadium could add $231 million to $511 million in direct spending to the Las Vegas economy each year, if it’s built. The university hopes to build a 50,000-seat stadium closer to ...

More than 14,000 Clark County high school seniors are graduating this year in the class of 2014. We spoke with eight seniors from Shadow Ridge High School on their graduation day about growing up in Las Vegas, graduating and what's next ...

Hyde Park sixth- and seventh-graders to compete in national science competition

Friday, June 13, 2014

For all the talk about attracting entrepreneurs to Southern Nevada, students at one Clark County middle school are proving that great business ideas can be grown right here in Las Vegas. Seven Hyde Park Middle School students will head to Washington, D.C., next week to represent Nevada in a national science competition, showcasing inventions as sophisticated as....

Despite a 3.4 grade-point average and several academic and extracurricular achievements, a senior at Liberty High School is among many in Clark County who will not be allowed to join their classmates at graduation ceremonies this week, all because ...

One by one, their names were called. Audience members — parents, children, friends and teachers — cheered them on inside the gymnasium. As they crossed the stage and received their diplomas, the women walked past their troubled pasts and all the missteps that landed them here ...

Karen Nokley’s 17-year-old daughter was struggling in her physics class last fall. So Nokley did what generations of thoughtful parents have done: She began looking for a tutor. Finding a tutor once meant trolling bulletin boards at libraries and colleges and writing down phone numbers. Now ...

When Ben Nelson was 4 years old, a social worker told his mother that the boy wouldn’t amount to anything. Ben had just been diagnosed with autism, a social and developmental disorder that affects 1 in 68 children. As an infant, he couldn’t do the simplest motions, like roll over on his back. Later, he would have trouble learning to talk. But on June 11, Ben Nelson will prove that social worker wrong ....

The Clark County School District is considering spending $638,000 to provide additional services to its seven elementary schools serving mostly minority students. Earlier this year, the School District ...

The Clark County School Board on Thursday approved a $150,000 settlement with a former teacher who filed a disability discrimination complaint against the district in 2009. Jacqlyn Smith, who was hired by the School District in in 1992, was a ...

The Clark County School District has applied for $4 million in federal grants to convert two more Las Vegas high schools into “turnaround” campuses. If the School District receives the School Improvement Grant funding ...

UNLV’s proposed on-campus stadium could generate between $7 million and $12.1 million in net operating income during its first year, depending on whether it’s open-air or domed, according to the university’s consultants. Conventions, Sports and Leisure International officials...

The School District’s budget increased nearly $50 million, or about 1 percent, from this fiscal year. District officials said the budget increase is due to slight increases in property tax revenues and ...

Benjamin Hand, 14, has always liked geography. The Las Vegas eighth-grader grew up poring over atlases and Google Maps, looking up countries — near and far — that he hopes to visit one day. But first, Hand is traveling to ...

Meet Bradley Davey. He’s just the 12th UNLV student to ever earn a Fulbright scholarship. He just graduated with a 4.0 grade-point average and is planning on teaching low-income students at a school in Germany. Oh, and he’s a high school dropout.

For years, Nevada allowed all seniors who passed their classes to walk at graduation, even if they failed the high school proficiency exam. These students wore caps and gowns and walked across the stage with their class, but instead of a high school diploma, they received a ...

During Pat Skorkowsky’s annual performance review today, the Clark County School Board commended the first-year superintendent for raising teacher morale but had mixed opinions about his communication efforts. Skorkowsky has made

Nevada continues to have one of the lowest preschool spending and enrollment levels nationally, according to a Rutgers University report released this week. Just 3 percent of Nevada 4-year-olds — 1,272 children — attended preschool ...

UNLV officials announced a new dean who is charged with shepherding a proposed UNLV medical school into reality. Barbara Atkinson, who comes from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, will become ...

A task force created by Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky in the wake of a middle school student’s suicide recommended today that the Clark County School District strengthen its reporting and disciplinary policies and...

What started as an innovative way for Salman Khan to tutor his cousins has become a renowned online school. Khan talked about how he would improve education in America during a speech Monday in Las Vegas ...